Claws Mail
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
7recommend
2warn against
Jan 10, 2026first mention
Aug 18, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There are X frontends to NMH like Sylpheed or claws. They make sense.”
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“Seamonkey or claws mifht be good alternatives too.”
“before I moved to claws-mail”
switched from Thunderbirdon “Help Keep Thunderbird Alive”
“Claws-mail (https://claws-mail.org) has a good working Windows version.”
Caveats and dissent
“There's Claws Mail, but it has enough bugs that I didn't even find it usable, nevermind reliable.”
“It doesn't display HTML emails just fine.”
Often compared with
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All comments 11
“Have you tried claws mail.”
“There are X frontends to NMH like Sylpheed or claws. They make sense.”
“There's Claws Mail, but it has enough bugs that I didn't even find it usable, nevermind reliable.”
“Seamonkey or claws mifht be good alternatives too.”
“before I moved to claws-mail”
“It doesn't display HTML emails just fine.”
“Claws-mail (https://claws-mail.org) has a good working Windows version.”
“can handle it without problems”
“Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design.”
“Talons[1] is my stripped down fork of claws-mail[2] which itself is a fork of Sylpheed[3].”
“why not a traditional client (thunderbird, claws, even outlook)”